现就职于纽约的邮局职工雅各布·辛格(蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰),曾是在越战中险象环生的退伍老兵。不堪回首的破碎记忆时刻刺痛着他的每一根神经,失败的第一次婚姻,夭折死去的儿子,以及折磨他最深的越战后遗症。他常常出现在越战服役期间被追杀的幻觉,熟悉又陌生 的种种细节,亦幻亦真。他的现任妻子试图帮助雅各布忘却这段痛苦的记忆,然而这些穿梭在梦境和现实里的情节遭遇,让雅各布彻底失去了理智。每当生死攸关的时刻,雅各布总会在另外一个时空醒来。孰真孰假的错觉,让他游离在现实和幻想的世界中不能自拔。
阿德里安·莱恩是上世纪八九十年代美国香艳电影的大师,他的作品比沙曼京、丁度之流的艺术价值要高,但照着大师那个级别还稍微矮了一截。他导演的《致命吸引力》、《桃色交易》、《不忠》、《新洛丽塔》等都被内地影迷广为传播,津津乐道。
然而《异世浮生》就像是林恩先生的番外作品,一向带给大家感官娱乐的他怎么会拍了这么一部恐怖片呢?由于这部电影经常被恐怖片榜单中收录,我注意它很久了,但本片的资源很难找(盗版商也是死心眼),所以我直到今天才得以一见。
故事很简单,就是男主角蒂姆·罗宾斯在战场上被重创,他临死前对自己一生和所爱之人的迷幻回顾,好像一场噩梦,结尾以他的死亡结束。看过此片我有一种恍然大悟的感觉,原来那么多我曾以为是原创idea的电影都是和老片“偷经”来的啊!!如果早就看过《异世浮生》,那《第六感》的结局也算不上惊艳了;《生死停留》也近似于抄袭了。老实说,容易一惊一乍的影迷就是因为看片量太少,才给后世的模仿作品不应得到的高分!
片中的蒂姆·罗宾斯还是鲜肉期,非常白嫩,像个大宝贝,看他被折磨得死去活来,真是我见犹怜。值得一提的是,片中前半部分的感情戏给了莱恩空间干一些sexy的老本行:女主角衣不遮体地在屋里乱逛,还心血来潮地钻进浴帘里和罗宾斯共浴,让人看得心神荡漾;罗宾斯发高烧,女主角毅然扒光了他,并召集一干邻居收集冰块,将罗宾斯镇在了浴缸里。我感觉由早逝女星伊丽莎白·佩尼亚Elizabeth Peña扮演的这个女主角更像罗宾斯的妈妈。
本片也绝不如国产恐怖片(观众知道结局后有一种被欺骗、被糊弄的感觉)那种一次性产品,而是通过层层的迷宫似的慢慢剥离,让观众的心理恐惧越来越深,渐渐有了一种不愿相信,但又不得不面对现实的可怕预感,似乎只有死亡才能让男主角解脱,只有死亡才能让这一场噩梦结束。看到最后,我倒替男主角松了最后一口气。
片中的几个“魔鬼”形象也被后来者给“继承”了(如《入侵脑细胞》),所以说《异世浮生》确实不负盛名,我今天看这部电影真有deja vu之感,只是相见恨晚啊。本片的编剧也很有名,他写的《人鬼情未了》让他得了一尊奥斯卡奖,此人叫布鲁斯·乔伊·罗宾Bruce Joel Rubin。
片中还出现了最可爱时期的麦考利金,忘记他如今的模样吧,他曾是这个世界上最cute的金发小男孩!怪不得男主角咽气前还想着他,真是一个小天使。
《异世浮生》不只是一部经典的恐怖片,也是一部值得反复品味的艺术片。片名直译是《雅各布天梯》,它取自希腊神话,有着深刻的哲学含义,但片中它是一种美国军队研制的超强兴奋剂的代号,它被使用在战士身上让他们在战场上玩儿命做炮灰。影片最后用字幕揭露了这一真相,但美国国防部坚决否认了这一说法。
据说二战期间给士兵滥用药物的事件就屡屡发生,如日本的神风敢死队就滥用过安非他命。那些飞行员在上阵前都吃下超大剂量的兴奋剂,变成了一个个疯子,完全丧失了理智,才敢于冲向对战方的军舰、战机,飞蛾扑火般同归于尽。这样的事情在中国也似乎发生过(吃大烟),估计在片中所描述的越战时也不可避免地发生过。
Sonny boy’s music was mentioned and played in the movie - and that’s why I was invited to watch the movie for the symbolism analysis.
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Just finished watching Jacob’s ladder. Not so much ‘horror’ after they introduced the hallucinogens at the other half of the movie (as if try to make it seems more ‘logical’ to most audiences who cannot fathom the true meanings of the sceenplay writer) - I will make no comment on the ‘hallucinogens’ part - pointless in fact.
Symbolisms:
1. Orange sky with clouds, we saw helicopters crossing over river/underworld: Hermes: Jacob’s ladder, messengers between sky and earth
2. Scene of soldier dozed off: starting the ‘dreaming’
3. Woke up in a metro running train holding book Camus ‘stranger’ a separative third person perspective of self-viewing
4. Metro station’s name Bergen and its etymology: Bhergh: high; mountain; pyramid
(woman staring: eye; octopus tail: earth real; rat=Egyptian mongoose: Atum’s guardian/ Shu god; water or raindrops: Tefnet; Saw a light coming from train: Ra’s circle. That’s a pyramid from top to bottom and now it’s all the way going down)
5. Station poster: Ecstasy: Plato’s Karthasis insinuating the very start of journey of purgatory in bardo
6. The confusing switching of two lives, one with kids and another with Succubi Jezebel, as it always happens in stories of Bardo, THE Self trying to collecting self.
7. He saw demons tracing him, nurse’s horned head, etc that’s what the Tibetan bardo described as hell. The climax of it resulted a baptism by the ‘witches’. Making him realize gotta climb the ladder up-(looking for lawyers, talking with that chemist etc)
8. His name is Jacob Singer, singer (he is going to praise the god, so eventually he will “make it” ). His job is postman, same as Jez work in the post office both are hermes actually, messengers of the god.
9. Chiropractor Louis Denardo. De Nardo=De BernARDO. (Bardo), Louis here is /lu/ and /yi/ which I shared in several tweets basically it’s same race, descendant of enneads, the Cherubim. (Demons as well, even if appearing as angels)
10. His youngest son had an accident of Bike vs Car, wheels vs wheels. Cherubim ophanim seraphim are all ‘wheelers’ the race of wheel making. Had wars among themselves. Jacob in the passage had to remind self of loss of his son to be the strongest attachment of someone in his life who passed away, oftenly used as the ‘guide’ to lead them out of bardo (end of movie denoting that, with light, staircase- but those are disguises)
11. The pains he had inbetween two parts of life “down the hell” were as if real, once he made peace with the self, (had agreement with the Cherubim) The Self collects self, devil become the Angel in Bardo.
12. The scene of taking last taxi “home”, Sam open the door. Taxi driver name: Garzero, Gar is a town name at western Tibet. As well as see//garpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gar_(God). Drivers in the movies are all captains of the cars/ships/wheels (same race). So like the “journey to the west” he reached the door of “home” and spoke with Sam the doorkeeper, a Janus type, janitor of the sundoor.- As I’m not very versed in the Bible and qu’ran, but generally speaking it could well be seen as such: after talking with Sam basically he’s now officially “dead” in the sense of experiencing that “ordeals/cleansing” from purgatory.
13. Did he really leave the hell? Bardo is a passage “down there” yet the scenery as if he finished the purgatory passage and made his way out. That’s very religious dogma there(all the -isms), spiritual pilgrimage of Brahma, accept we are sinners and we gotta go through judgement and final day etc (worst brain virus). It gives people a false idea of “light” at the end trying to mean the liberation, which it is not. It is of course not heaven at the last scene either, as Hollywood trying so hard to do the hell vs heaven dualistic moral and desire based judgement same old same old doctrines.
I take the screenplay writer must be very knowledgeable of the Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. Didn’t focus much on the numeral links though (depends on the director’s knowledge of Gematria), all in all its a work that worthy copied and remake in Hollywood just so that ‘they’ could keep preaching their pyramidal scheme of enneads worshippings, as well as focusing on dualism’s extremities - the very reason of pains generator.
just found our Sam’s name as in Samkrama. Sam here has the value ‘completely’ or ‘absolutely’, full, all.
不知不觉看过这位导演多部电影了,深深被导演对于电影内核的内容思考所打动。
他擅长婚姻讨论,婚姻片子都很有深度,比如婚后面对爱情、生活、家庭、孩子,这些都是他电影中的关注点。
没想到这部生死哲学电影也颇有深度,当然也离不开婚姻、家庭、夫妻、孩子等,非常推荐,值得一看,顺便推荐导演其他电影。
作为鼻祖,现在看来还可以啦 喜欢在医院的推车上看到的那段幻象
还是翻译成雅各布天梯比较好。一部把宗教和梦境鞣制在一起的文艺反战电影,手法另类但处理并不高明,导演很快忍不住就剧透了,不过电影给人的感觉跟《美丽人生》是一样的
有一段真像寂静岭啊 难怪说寂静岭受此电影影响后来的很多片子估计也是受了此片叙事方式的影响混沌不清的双重世界,不知道真相
就是1990年的《生死停留》。前边冗长,但最后并没有太恍然大悟的感觉。
没想到原来还是个阴谋论类型的电影,除了快速晃头的魔鬼,其他的都不怎么吓人。
寂静岭梗的来源,听说他们团队都是本片的粉丝来着,本片的剧情和5基本一致,也能在后来的电影比如说蝴蝶效应生死停留里看到它的影子,开头会让人感觉是战争片,多重幻觉叠加,幻觉背后还是幻觉,全片依旧是一个死前的幻觉。医院的推车上的那个幻觉弄得实在不错:恐怖感渲染的非常好,仿佛大卫林奇附体
又被导演忽悠了。据说这个结局是根据试映反响(观众认为overwhelming难以接受)大修改了的。我想看director's cut 会不会有趣一些。
原以为是部科幻片。故事线路设置不错,中文译名很狗血
每个阶段都觉得“嗯,应该看懂了”,而事实上不到最后还是看不懂。可是,看到了最后,又貌似可以还是没看懂。。。
集结号,中国人死的时候怀疑自己;异世浮生,米国佬死的时候竟敢怀疑组织。。。
剧本的结构很精妙,三重时空回环,对越战的反思从表层的战后PTSD出发,一点点往回构建直指骇人真相,过程中带着风格化的浓郁诗意和伤感氛围。从恐怖惊悚类型而言,完成地也很出色,阴湿鬼魅感丛生,尤其是深夜幽灵地铁一段。
被遗忘的先驱之作。
虽比不上[穆赫兰道][睁开你的双眼][生死停留]等经典,但毕竟是真假错乱型悬疑惊悚片先驱,值得一看。对战争的反思和宗教元素的强调也使本片区别于大部分Rubber Reality作品。地铁和恐怖医院场景启发了[寂静岭]系列。晃动的脑袋和夜店群魔乱舞是迷幻剂效果的绝佳图解。PS:[异世浮生]译名赞。(8.0/10)
过往可能更关注导演作品里的情色元素,其实他制造悬疑的能力还是有一套的,比如这部的迷幻风就营造得不错,地铁异象,冰水梦境,炼狱医院,舞厅交媾几个段落都很有代表性,就是收尾的阴谋论蛮生硬的。
结尾半小时让人极度失望,剩下的都是经典啊经典!
for i love you so sonny boy
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看的过程有点穆赫兰道的感觉,当然没有穆赫兰道好啦,有些乱,导演对电影节奏控制有点差,还有些粗糙了。不过整体看起来很文艺腔,可不,原来是LOLITA的导演!
电影又作《但丁的地狱》,挺切题的,虽然披着越战背景外衣,而且一开始还让人以为是在探讨PTSD,表现手法上由于偷师安布罗斯·比尔斯短篇小说《枭河桥记事》,事实上,这部电影让人的感觉就是无限接近文学质感。
3.5星. 從這部電影認識了一種類型電影的名字, Rubber Reality, 虛幻電影. 時空變換, 主角經歷著不同時空的不同人生, 不同境遇, 分不清自己的身份以及什麽是真實. 這部算是年代較早的先驅吧. 想法不錯, 結局也另類, 但中間的敘述過程有點無聊, 也是被後來的這類影片的精緻和嚴謹養刁了胃口.